Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ding"') Darling captioned "The Fates Are Funny That Way." It pictured a wreck at a railway crossing ("36,000 Die in Auto Crashes Every Year!"); a scene in an operating room (''Prominent Senator Succumbs to Emergency Operation!"); a street accident ("Pedestrian Killed Crossing Street!"); a row of dead lying beside a table ("Poison Food Kills 469 at Old Settlers' Picnic!"); a volcano erupting ("Earthquakes, Floods, Cancer and Pestilence Kill Thousands Every Day!"). Beneath this billboard of horrors appeared a citizen, newspaper in hand, turning to his wife exclaiming: "But nothing ever seems to happen to Huey...
...Philadelphia in next week's primary, and virtually certain of victory, is a 45-year-old athlete whose name had hardly been heard of in politics until two years ago. John Bernard Kelly, brother of Playwright George Kelly (The Show-Off, Craig's Wife, Philip Goes Forth), learned to row on his native Schuylkill; won the singles sculling championship at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920; has 125 rowing championships to his credit. He married the female coach of water sports and canoeing at the University of Pennsylvania who bore him four children. Squash, golf, and handball are still his games...
...Hills, N. Y., Frankie Parker played Champion Fred Perry in the fourth round of the National Men's Singles Championship and lost, 4-6, 2-6, 0-6. Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days in a row and the U. S. sports public was pestered with the details of one of the weirdest contests ever held, that of Frankie Parker v. Frankie Parker's forehand...
...Cohns. Brother Jack's early experiences filming Westerns in a woodsy spot on upper Manhattan Island convinced them that a cheap picture can be made to yield as high a boxoffice return as an expensive one. In 1920 they began their career on Hollywood's "Poverty Row'' with a series of shorts called The Hallroom Boys. Still pinching pennies, they followed that with Screen Snapshots, a particularly offensive scrapreel dealing with the home life of cinemactors. By 1922 they were turning out feature pictures...
...City for a conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate, Diego Rivera, who yanked a revolver from his hip pocket, pointed it straight at his old companion-in-paint...